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Napoleon the Little

BOOK II
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At the same time, however, this unfortunate army is dishonoured.

On the 3rd of December, they decorated the police officers who arrested its representatives and its generals; though it is equally true that the soldiers themselves received two louis per man.

Oh, shame on every side! money to the soldiers, and the cross to the police spies! [1] These three colonels are MM.

Cailhassou, Dubarry and Policarpe.
Jesuitism and corporalism, this is the sum total of the regime.

The whole political theory of M.Bonaparte is composed of two hypocrisies--a military hypocrisy towards the army, a catholic hypocrisy towards the clergy.


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